Persons with Mental Illnesses

CSG Justice Center staff conducted a virtual site visit with the Sacremento County Public Defender Pre-Trial Support Program (PTSP) team. On the first day, CSG Justice Center staff provided an overview of the visit, heard a presentation about the components and accomplishments of the PTSP program so far, and participated in a discussion on how the program staff would like to enhance their program and discussed strategies to do that. The second day will be scheduled in the next few weeks.

CSG Justice Center Staff conducted a virtual site visit with the Colorado Divison of Criminal Justice grantee team. The aim of the virtual site visit was to assist the grantee team in conceptualizing and planning for their crisis call response system. Since the Crisis Call Diversion efforts at the Houston Learning Site are in line with what the grantee team is looking to do in Colorado (have dispatch screen for mental health calls and have the ability to deploy a wide variety of responses based on the caller's needs) bringing the two groups together was very helpful.

CGS Justice Center staff conducted a virtual law enforcement learning site visit for grantee to the University of Florida Police Department (UFPD) on May 13th, 2021. UFPD provided an overview of their site and how they cross-collaborate with Behavioral Health (BH) to provide services to people on their campus with various behavioral health needs. UFPD highlighted how they have worked to strengthen cross-collaborative and interdisciplinary relationships and investing in ongoing training opportunities.

CSG Justice Center Staff conducted a virtual site visit to assist the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice grantee team in conceptualizing and planning for their crisis call response system. Since the Crisis Call Division efforts at the Houston Learning Site are in line with what the grantee team is looking to do in Colorado (have dispatch screen for mental health calls and have the ability to deploy a wide variety of responses based on the caller's needs) bringing the two groups together was very helpful.

On November 3, 2020 PRC received a request from Katherine Stovall, Hotline Services Program Coordinator for RAINN requesting our thoughts on a couple of documents drafted by RAINN staff to enhance staff training regarding PREA. The two draft documents -PREA overview and PREA Myths were sent to PRC staff for review and on November 13, 2020 PRC staff met with RAINN staff to discuss our first impressions of the original draft documents submitted to us for review and also to gain more insight on the purpose for use of these documents.

Cases responded to and closed during the reporting period January - June 2021 were 469

Goals and Proposed Activities
The following describes the areas of focus for the advanced TA work with the Tarrant County
Jail.
Policy development and implementation
The Tarrant County Jail has seen an increase in the number of transgender individuals in
custody. Overall, policy guidance regarding transgender individuals is weak. For example, while
transgender individuals are allowed to have their pat search preference and their preferred
pronoun on their ID card, there is nothing in policy about ability to house by gender identity

There has been a hold on the funds due to a prior Nevada DCFS office's inadequate audit of use of prior grant funds. Nevada requested partial drawdown for some projects, and Ania Dobrzanska had to get approval so DCFS was still waiting on that in October. Nevada did expend their own funds to develop the PREA educational materials which included two brochures, one for youth, one for families/public and one PREA poster as well as a staff wallet card with first responder steps. They also started the electronic case management upgrade with Tyler Technologies and are still working on it.

Despite the ongoing pandemic, WVDCR was able to make significant progress on their time task. During this reporting period, the grantee distributed and collected surveys for all of the pilot sites, reviewed and updated their PREA policy - an ongoing project, and provided all pilot sites with access to the data reporting system. Additionally, the grantee reviewed and updated the coordinated response protocol.

King County Department of Adult and Juvenile Detention (DAJD) continues to be on track for successful completion. During the October to December reporting period, DAJD has had steady contact with the JDI coaches. Due to changing needs in staffing due to COVID, DAJD has decided to redirect some grant funding to innovative training for their staff. DAJD has begun developing a training plan that involves small lessons designed to keep information regarding sexual safety fresh for the staff and their resident population, with a focus on identifying red flags and reporting.